December and January change finds

NJMark1

I have been meaning to post finds in change for some time but never seemed to get around to it. My wife actually found all of the following at her job

1 Indian head cent 1899
110 wheat pennies
1 buff nickle 1936
1 merc dime 1945
5 Quarters 1944 1957D 1958D 1964D all of these are from a collection somewhere AU to UNC 1980 Proof Quarter how this one gotinto circulation I have no Idea

Lots of Canadian and some British

Thank the lord for Coinstar

Mark

oldshep

What does she do? Does she have access to the coinstar cache?
Shep

koincollect

I have seen on many occassions that people just leave the coins rejected by the machine on the side. These are usually foreign coins of lower denominations. I have on occasions asked the folks and got those! Nothing special, just Canadian, Euros, British and one occassion Japan!

DBSTrader2

I used to work as a retail manager for Woolworth's (remember them?) and CVS. Now this is going back some 20 years, but I used to love setting up the cash drawers every day to open rolls for interesting coins, or cash-them-out during & after shifts to see what they'd gathered from customers.

I found my decent share of wheaties, war nickels, and silver back then. And even better, I found lots of blue (silver certificate) & red seal paper money, star notes, and even a "Hawaii" overprint with brown seal from WW2!

THOSE were the days! I really miss those opportunities!

These days, I rarely even see a wheatie, war nickel, and especially silver in change or from occasional rolls from the bank..........................

- - Dave

ajaan

<< <i>I used to work as a retail manager for Woolworth's >>


Geez Dave. You are old.

Man

NJMark1 good job and much respect for having your wife supporting your habit.



<< <i><< I used to work as a retail manager for Woolworth's >> Geez Dave. You are old. >>



Hey I remember Woolworth's I even ate at the diner that they had inside the store.

NJMark1

Shep she is a cashier/front end manager for a major foodstore. The coinstar reference is about a theory the wife and I have about the increase in Silver she has been bringing home since these coin counting machines have become more common. The theory goes something like this some old gent passes on and he has a few coins tucked away in a drawer or sock or wherever. The widow having no clue finds them and tosses them in with her other change from there they go to the bank or store with a automated counter then to rolls then back to my wife at her job. She is really pretty good at finding the silver just by the sound when she brakes a roll. By the way I always check the reject tray on any coin counter I see.

Mark

DBSTrader2

I was just a wee spry pup and still wet behind the ears when I joined the Woolworth Team!!

And I can still grill up a mean split frankfurter on the grill into one of those split rectangular buns they used!